Design Thoughts and Architecture Overview

• Principle and Belief

Pre- install Preparation

• Hardware Specification
• Disk Configuration
• Build the 1st Controller Physical Box
• Build an Image
• Cobbler Configuration and Template
• Setup an NTP Server
• CentOS Repo
• Update /etc/hosts

Network

• Architecture and Segment
• Hostnaming and IP Planning
• Physical Host and Controller VM Network
• Install and Configure OpenVPN
• Cobbler VM Network
• Ceph Network
• Neutron Network

Chef Automation

• Chef Repository
• Chef Client, including how deployment works after VM/ hosts provisioned

Distributed Storage by Ceph

• Ceph Host Preparation
• Ceph Partition
• Ceph Node Configuration
• Add New Ceph OSD
• Add New Monitor
• Post Install Configuration and Verify
• Modify Ceph Parameter
• Repair Inconsistent Page Groups

Deployment

• Prepare Controller VMs and Create Snapshot
• Deploy HAProxy and Keepalived
• Deploy Galera Cluster
• Deploy RabbitMQ Cluster with Monitoring, HAProxy and Nginx
• Deploy OpenStack
• Build Neutron Controller
• Register Image

Software Defined Network

• Neutron Operation
• Neutron HA

Stress Test

• Network Performance Test
• Ceph Stress Test
• MySQL Stress Test

Operation

• When adding new VM
• Log Analysis by Logstash
• Monitoring by Ganglia, Nagios
• Jenkins
• One rule everybody should remember is to run "who" and "wall" prior to shutdown the server!

Troubleshooting